Belief has attained the level of faith when it motivates life and shapes the mode of living. The acceptance of a teaching as true is not faith; that is mere belief. [1] Belief is always limiting and binding; faith is expanding and releasing. Belief fixates, faith liberates. [2] Convictions about God may be arrived at through wise reasoning, but the individual becomes God-knowing only by faith, through personal experience. [3] After all, it is what one believes rather than what one knows that determines conduct and dominates personal performances. [4] The higher a creature’s education, the more respect he has for the knowledge, experience, and opinions of others. [5] Beliefs, when they once become a part of one’s religion, are hard to get away from. [6] Belief may not be able to resist doubt and withstand fear, but faith is always triumphant over doubting, for faith is both positive and living. [7] The religions of authority require of men uniformity in belief, but this is impossible of realization in the present state of the world. [8]
It requires time for men and women to effect radical and extensive changes in their basic and fundamental concepts of social conduct, philosophic attitudes, and religious convictions. [9]